British Academy: The UK's National Academy for the Humanities and Social Sciences

Acquisition and Loss of Nationality

Project Directors: Professor Jo Shaw; Professor Rainer Bauböck
Website: http://www.law.ed.ac.uk/citmodes/

Since 2009, the British Academy has supported the CITMODES project <http://www.law.ed.ac.uk/citmodes/>  (Acquisition and Loss of Citizenship in and across Modern European States), which provided an initial platform for collecting online data and reports at a website hosted by the Europa Institute of the University of Edinburgh and which serves now to expand the EUDO CITIZENSHIP observatory (http://eudo-citizenship.eu) to states in the EU neighbourhood and to support networking activities.

EUDO CITIZENSHIP builds on earlier and parallel projects analyzing citizenship laws and policies in EU-27 as well as in neighbouring countries of Eastern Europe and the Mediterranean.

Among the main objectives of EUDO CITIZENSHIP are:

>    to periodically update the information on citizenship laws and policies

>    to make this information freely accessible online

>    to expand the comparison by adding new countries